where does your meat come from?

[MuleySniper]

Thats funny stickslinger... "I will never back down" Your wife has laid the hammer on you a few times if I remember correctly
MS

[wastickslinger]

ok ok you caught me Sniper. My wife wears the pants around here.  Good thing she feels the same way I do about all this, and to top it off she is a teacher. Shed much rather hear kids talk abut hunting and butchering critters that half the stuff she tells me about.  fourth graders talk dirtier that truck drivers these days.

[robb92]

I had the same thing happen to me when my daughter was in 1st grade, teacher wasn't happy about her telling her friends at recess that she went out hunting with her dad the night before. Pretty much told the teacher that what happens at home doesn't have naything to do with school! Also told her to mind her own business and teach kids about math and reading and let me worry about teaching my kids the ways of being a sportsman.

[BC CHASER]

That's the problem with a lot of teachers these days,  they don't teach the subjects they teach their beliefs.  Wonder why our kid's  are having a tough time with the tests............. there you go.  It is really bad at the H.S. and collage levels!

[cohoho]

Big difference in the schools here versus AK.  My son had a project once on the Lewis and Clarke, they had to make a note book for the traveling journal of sorts from made to look old paper and what ever cover they wanted, he did his from bear hide section he shot.  Used a tanned section of the hide for the cover, I bet the teachers here would have crapped their selves if they saw it here and knew what material it was....  His outdoor adventure program through the school, they had to make their own fire and cook an egg to eat, 4th grade class too cool.....  Here, I think he is being brain washed about hunting type stuff, he is losing interest in going this year.... 

[actionshooter]

I had a problem with a teacher a couple of years ago who wanted to debate my daughter (6th grade) in front of the class, on hunting. A couple of calls to the principal put a stop to that. 
 I think some teachers truly don't care about teaching, they have anti everything agendas   

[alecvg]

In 6th grade I wrote a poem in school, my teacher couldn't stop laughing, he made me read it to the class.
Here it is:

               Some deer are nice and big; some are tiny and small
               Some have big antlers, so lets shoot them all!

My teacher liked it.

[PolarBear]

We hunt and raise our own beef.  My girls have known what livestock and game animals are for and where our meat comes from since they were babies.  Some of their friends think that it is cool but some who's parents are tree hugging hippies say that we are horrible, sadistic people.  The kids who's parents dislike meat are also the ones who want to come over to see our cows and watch the deer and elk in the pastures.  I guess they would rather hug than eat them. 

[Dslayer]

Just got to say that I am a teacher.  I have a 6 X 6 bull elk rack on my wall in my classroom.  No one gives me any s*** about it.  Of course, in Eastern Washington, where most people know where their food comes from, it's probably less of a problem.

[kramman]

this is kind of funny something like this just happened to me today.went to my kids elem. scholl to inform them that my 2 boys mark[10] and logan[7] would not be in school from tomorrow until thurs. of next week because we are going muzzle. deer hunting.the sect. looked at me and excused herself to go get the principal. well the principal comes out and informs me that hunting is an unexcused absence.my response: well sir not everything you learn in this world is learned in a classroom and i turned around and walked out.  kram     

[BC CHASER]

this is kind of funny something like this just happened to me today.went to my kids elem. scholl to inform them that my 2 boys mark[10] and logan[7] would not be in school from tomorrow until thurs. of next week because we are going muzzle. deer hunting.the sect. looked at me and excused herself to go get the principal. well the principal comes out and informs me that hunting is an unexcused absence.my response: well sir not everything you learn in this world is learned in a classroom and i turned around and walked out.  kram    

Good for you man I like it!

[wastickslinger]

 

[Bean Counter]

My wife keeps trying to stop me from doing things purely for shock value.  If it were me, and I were to go against my better half on this one, I"d probably send the kid to school with some deer blood-stained clothing 

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[norsepeak]

It's interesting, you guys are all talking about issues with grade school and jr. high teachers not having a clue...well it doesn't get any better in college.  I have a degree in wildlife biology, and in one of my UPPER level wildlife classes I had a proffessor who is the typical book worm geek....supper thick coke bottle glasses and the pocket protector....He told the class one day that large ungulates like cattle and elk and deer CANNOT feed on a slope greater than 30%.  So growing up my whole life in the woods hunting etc. and going to WSU which is right above the snake river breaks (which are loaded with elk, deer and cattle and as you chukar hunters know is very steep!) I politely raised my hand.  He called on me and I said "I believe that information is incorrect."  He said " what do you mean?"  Large ungulates are very capable of feeding on steep slopes..and again he disagreed.  So I raised my hand again and said "WHAT"  So I asked him if he had ever actually been outside before?  Needless to say he didn't appriciate that and flunked me...so the next time I took his class when we got to that particular lecture...he skipped over the whole issue.  So the take home message is raise your kids to know the difference between right and wrong, how the real world works, and the hunting is a way of life, a heritage that should be taught and passed down thru the generations.  Be proud of being a hunter!  That's how my kid will be raised.

[runningboard]

large ungulates like cattle and elk and deer CANNOT feed on a slope greater than 30%.

That's why side-hill gulcher goats have legs that are longer on one side, so they can stand on steep slopes. just depends on which way they're standing though if they turn around the short legs will be on the downhill side and they fall!